Monday, August 17, 2020

Joyous Voting during the reign of the Orange King

 In a “great America” mailing your ballot is only available to the Orange King and his staff . Ordinary citizens are too crooked to be trusted with mailed ballots so the DeJoyous rich new Postmaster got busy cutting services and promising less money to the Post Office in the interests of efficiency. 

 

The Orange King was quick with his Kamala Harris  criticism; he called her mean and nasty. Probably the limit to his vocabulary . And of course the usual “birtherism” label oozed out of his spigot. As the New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz noted in one of his satirical pieces:  the O. King doesn’t think Oakland is in the United States. ( I guess the King thinks it’s the  land of Oak- like Greenland is the land of Green, and Iceland is the land of Ice.

 Providence RI Catholic Bishop was crying about an upcoming Presidential ticket without a Catholic? Whoa – 2008, 2012 don’t count? And now, 2020, our Catholic Biden returns; Bishop Tobin are you just waking up a la Rip Van Winkle? Or are you in the Orange King’s intellectual class?

 More Orange King ramblings: referring to writers who  received Pulitzer prizes (and the King doesn’t like what they report ):  “these writers, the writers got Pulitzer Prizes, and that shows you a Pulitzer Prize is worthless. And frankly, you ought to start a petition to return the Pulitzer Prize……”

 The White supremacists offers greatness to lilywhite Christians. And when the gun totin’ lilywhites have problems they resort to familiar old saws like throwing in the Soros name. Guess who wants to join the club? Maine’s Senator Susan Collins is  running scared in a reelection bid because her opponent Sara Gideon, who has more guts and empathy seems to be gaining on her. So what does Collins do? How about trying a bit of anti-Semitism – like:  "There's  all these left-wing, uh, hedge fund owners that are financing Super PACs and financing Sara's [Gideon] campaign, such as Donald Sussman and George Soros….. Oh yeah – pull out the Soros name – that will always bring in a few extra White Supremacists.

 Even more frightening: A wealthy Georgia businesswoman, Marjorie Greene, defender of the King’s conspiracy theory QAnon – purveyors of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic  rantings won her primary and thus is a shoo-in to win her election in a very red district.  Guess who sent her hearty congratulations? The Orange King’s tweet noted she was “strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!” Why is this different than the rantings of early Nazi days in Germany?

 New rules from the Orange King’s White Palace: the head of the Food and Drug Administration is forbidden from talking to the press about the pandemic unless an administration minder is present. Number of dead Americans (from Corona Virus) climbing higher every day – so what does the Orange King do? Make sure the thought police are “guarding” (read: censor) Federal experts whose expertise might publicly contradict whatever the Orange King dribbles out his mouth on any particular day. This works well with the King’s new rules on virus data collection, new coronavirus database. Forget about facts/science. The Stable Genius King is running the show. 

And, having written about food for umpteen years – how about this egg story from New York? Hillandale Farms, a New York producer/wholesale distributor of eggs is being sued by the State’s  Attorney General Letitia James. The suit alleges the company gouged the prices of eggs during the COVID-19 pandemic - more than four million cartons of eggs sold to major grocery chains, U.S. military facilities, and wholesale food distributors in March and April of 2020.  Yeah! Go Letitia! (I’ve been buying eggs at Target – great prices all the time!)

 

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